You must complete the following:
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1. Name of the genetic disease: The name of the disease is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
2. Symptoms of disease: The symptoms can appear as early as infancy or may appear before the age of 6. Some of the symptoms include, Muscle weakness, Frequent falls, difficult to run jump or hopping and loose the ability to walk.
3. When is the disease usually detected... at birth or later in life?: It can Be detected if possible at infancy or before the age of 6. By the age of 10 it is the latest.
4. Frequency of carriers of this disease in the population:The Duchenne muscular syndrome is passed down mostly by the father. They are the ones that pass it down, the mother is a carrier but males are the one that passed it down.
5. Frequency of disease in the population: This does not occur frequently. Only 1 kid out of 3.600 kids have this disease.
6. Mode of inheritance. Is disease dominant, recessive, sex-linked or due to non-disjunction? It is a sex linked.
7. Is disease autosomal ( on the first 22 pairs of chromosomes), or is it on the X-linked or sex chromosomes?: This disease is in inherit in a X-linked chromosome.
8. What chromosome number has been determined to carry this gene?: It is caused by a mutation in the X-chromosome.
9. What treatment, if any, is used for this disease? How does the treatment affect the disease?: There is no known treatment for this disease, but there are treatments that control the symptoms.
10. What is the prognosis or outlook for your baby's recovery?: The prognosis may vary, if the illness is severe chances of having a normal life may go down if the illness is not that severe the person may keep a normal life with medicine treatments for the symptoms. Usually the person only lasts to their 20's.
11. What future techniques might be used to correct or eliminate your baby's disease?: The only thing they might to is that there might be a gene therapy later in the future.
12. Discuss in detail what difficulties, if any, a parent would encounter in raising a child with this disease.: They will have difficulties raising their child because the child wont have the ability to move as a normal kid and when the child is older( 10 yeas old) ,they have to go through treatments through all the kid's life until death and they have to practically always see their child in a wheelchair.
You must complete the following:
(Include the number of the question)
1. Name of the genetic disease: The name of the disease is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
2. Symptoms of disease: The symptoms can appear as early as infancy or may appear before the age of 6. Some of the symptoms include, Muscle weakness, Frequent falls, difficult to run jump or hopping and loose the ability to walk.
3. When is the disease usually detected... at birth or later in life?: It can Be detected if possible at infancy or before the age of 6. By the age of 10 it is the latest.
4. Frequency of carriers of this disease in the population:The Duchenne muscular syndrome is passed down mostly by the father. They are the ones that pass it down, the mother is a carrier but males are the one that passed it down.
5. Frequency of disease in the population: This does not occur frequently. Only 1 kid out of 3.600 kids have this disease.
6. Mode of inheritance. Is disease dominant, recessive, sex-linked or due to non-disjunction? It is a sex linked.
7. Is disease autosomal ( on the first 22 pairs of chromosomes), or is it on the X-linked or sex chromosomes?: This disease is in inherit in a X-linked chromosome.
8. What chromosome number has been determined to carry this gene?: It is caused by a mutation in the X-chromosome.
9. What treatment, if any, is used for this disease? How does the treatment affect the disease?: There is no known treatment for this disease, but there are treatments that control the symptoms.
10. What is the prognosis or outlook for your baby's recovery?: The prognosis may vary, if the illness is severe chances of having a normal life may go down if the illness is not that severe the person may keep a normal life with medicine treatments for the symptoms. Usually the person only lasts to their 20's.
11. What future techniques might be used to correct or eliminate your baby's disease?: The only thing they might to is that there might be a gene therapy later in the future.
12. Discuss in detail what difficulties, if any, a parent would encounter in raising a child with this disease.: They will have difficulties raising their child because the child wont have the ability to move as a normal kid and when the child is older( 10 yeas old) ,they have to go through treatments through all the kid's life until death and they have to practically always see their child in a wheelchair.
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